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DEFUSING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb)

Synonyms:

deactivation; defusing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("defusing" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)

Derivation:

defuse (remove the triggering device from)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb defuse

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